10 Days

Summary:

By Miki Aihara the famous mangaka of Hot Gimmick!, the story started with an omiai marriage meeting - this is very common in Japan between high-school senior Aiko Takahashi and office manager/future CEO of his family's company Kiyosumi Shirakawa. Unlike most high-school girls, Aiko doesn't seem displeased with the omiai. In fact, she quite welcome it. Since they're strangers, Shirakawa suggested a 10-days trial where they would go on dates and get to know each other.

Day 2 since Day 1 = the omiai itself - holding hands. Turns out that Shirakawa is the shy/traditional/boring/nerdy kind which is cute actually. But at the end of the date, Aiko's ex-boyfriend turns up. this has to be fast since it's a oneshot. He seems like a nice guy though...Hmmm

Day 3 - Staring into each other's eyes romantically. Which Shirakawa couldn't do! LOLZ

Day 4 - Exchanging mobile email address. I never understand this concept since we call it as sms over here, and e-mail is meant for internets...Hmm, Japan's telecommunication system seems to be different from the rest of the world. Which is why many of their handphones are unusable outside the country

Day 5 - Aiko saw her ex making out with his new girlfriend. She suggested to go to a love hotel with Shirakawa, but he didn't. Finally we knew why Aiko is so agreeable with this omiai. She just want to shock her ex! Shirakawa is too good for her!

Day 6 - An email from Shirakawa, canceling the date because of work. He did not call

Day 7 - Still no contact from Shirakawa.

Day 8 - Nothing.

Day 9 - Email from Shirakawa, suggesting that they forget the whole marriage thing. Aiko replied his email with repeated "IDIOTS" lolz

Aiko appeared in front of Shirakawa's company building. He tried to explain that it's because she could not forget about her ex. Aiko replied that the reason why they broke up was over her refusal of sex with her ex. She did initially thought of using the "marriage" thing to shock him, but that she did not care about it any longer because it of Shirakawa. They made up for the "Day 6 - Day 9" misses and since it's Day 10 now, Aiko agrees to marry him.


Review:

This oneshot is available in the Sweet II oneshots collection.

I've always loved the way Miki Aihara-sensei draws, but her storyline (which consists of the dominant guy and the submissive girl) always annoys me. However, this oneshot is actually quite cute, since it's the guy who is the shy one instead. The girl Aiko is not my favourite kind of female character, but still, she's inside the range of "characters which I don't hate". And as usual, there's always the nice drawings to make up for the lack of character likeability.

Labels: Oneshots/Single volume

Posted at 12:13 AM